Ah, my darling Chetster... that was VERY helpful! Thank you so much!!
So the bus comment was VERY astute in a delightfully simplistic manner! *clapping her hands* YAY!!
Good stuff!
No envy here... i is what i is, and you and i... i think we are drawn to our similarities as well as differences, don't you?
I've come to think that some people are ... ummmmm... naturally inclined towards a more spiritual life... or... maybe... a more spiritually *active* life... than others ... for no reason that is apparent to anyone (which makes the whole reincarnation theory somewhat tantalizing, because it could certainly explain things!)... and others simply are not. Nothing right or wrong here, just IS and ISN'T. No better or worse here, just called or not called. Who can help it if they are not called? No fault of theirs! It's a strangeness that i chew on.... Cuz i have been like this since before i even knew what GOD *was*, before i even knew the word "God"...
If i felt it so young... and had not even yet been exposed to the formal concepts of God and religion.... that is no... um... what's the opposite of fault? *LOL* It was something inside of me that was already in me.
And i wonder how others do not have it. Cuz of course, i thought EVERYONE had it; that's how we think when we are young. We expect everyone is having the same experience til we learn different. So then.... DOES everyone have it, but squelch it, or does everyone have it, but express it differently? Or do some have it and others NOT have it? Since "it" is so nebulous... it's difficult to say!
Any road... Zen and Tao are not FAR more clear to me than they were before! And yes, i see that Jesus was doing both. When you said he was doing Zen, my brain *immediately* supplied that he was ALSO doing Tao! *LOL* I need to be on your couch! My couch is just too far away from you!
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Date: 2009-01-13 06:05 pm (UTC)So the bus comment was VERY astute in a delightfully simplistic manner! *clapping her hands* YAY!!
Good stuff!
No envy here... i is what i is, and you and i... i think we are drawn to our similarities as well as differences, don't you?
I've come to think that some people are ... ummmmm... naturally inclined towards a more spiritual life... or... maybe... a more spiritually *active* life... than others ... for no reason that is apparent to anyone (which makes the whole reincarnation theory somewhat tantalizing, because it could certainly explain things!)... and others simply are not. Nothing right or wrong here, just IS and ISN'T. No better or worse here, just called or not called. Who can help it if they are not called? No fault of theirs! It's a strangeness that i chew on.... Cuz i have been like this since before i even knew what GOD *was*, before i even knew the word "God"...
If i felt it so young... and had not even yet been exposed to the formal concepts of God and religion.... that is no... um... what's the opposite of fault? *LOL* It was something inside of me that was already in me.
And i wonder how others do not have it. Cuz of course, i thought EVERYONE had it; that's how we think when we are young. We expect everyone is having the same experience til we learn different. So then.... DOES everyone have it, but squelch it, or does everyone have it, but express it differently? Or do some have it and others NOT have it? Since "it" is so nebulous... it's difficult to say!
Any road... Zen and Tao are not FAR more clear to me than they were before! And yes, i see that Jesus was doing both. When you said he was doing Zen, my brain *immediately* supplied that he was ALSO doing Tao! *LOL* I need to be on your couch! My couch is just too far away from you!